Silence: A Place to Start a Journal Entry

by Ruth Folit

Silence takes many shapes: There’s the awkward silence, the pregnant pause, the meaningful silence, the collective moment of silence remembering and honoring our heroes, the random few seconds of silence that occurs in a roomful of people when all at once–and momentarily–no one is speaking. There’s the almost eerie silence experienced late at night outside after a new snowfall. And there’s the silence that often occurs during a conversation among a small group of people, signaling that the night is drawing to a close.